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Richard Glazar (November 29, 1920 – December 20, 1997) was a Czech-Jewish inmate of the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust.
Richard Glazar claimed to have spent ten months in Treblinka, a camp where millions of Jews were allegedly killed. His account contains many implausible and contradictory details, such as his camouflage unit, his interpreters, and his firewood.
Richard Glazar was a Czech-Jewish survivor of Treblinka death camp who escaped and wrote a book about his experience. This web page contains an extract from his interview in 1981, where he describes his life in Prague, his deportation to Theresienstadt and Treblinka, and his escape from the camp.
Richard Glazar was a Czech Jew who survived the Treblinka II Extermination Camp and wrote a book about his experiences. He escaped from the camp after the uprising, testified against the criminals and struggled with the trauma for the rest of his life.
Richard Glazar was born in Prague in 1920. The son of an officer in the Austrian army who had been wounded in World War I , he grew up speaking both German and Czech in a secular humanistic Jewish home.
Memoir by Richard Glazar, 1992 In Die Falle mit dem grünen Zaun: Überleben in Treblinka (1992; Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka, 1995) Richard Glazar recorded his camp experiences as an Arbeitsjude (work Jew) in Treblinka, the largest of five Nazi camps devoted exclusively to extermination (some 900,000 Jews were murdered there).
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Richard Glazar was one of the few survivors of the Treblinka extermination concentration camp. In 1943, he managed to escape from the camp and was able to report to the world about the horrific conditions and procedures in the camp.
